Owned and lived in for a while an 1840’s cabin made from chestnut in Virginia. My grandfather had one on his property as a guest house. There are still a few American Chestnut trees that survived, but they are rare and kept secret. Grandpa’s neighbor had one and brought roasted chestnuts over at Christmas time. On the 28 acre wooded property I owned there quite a few Chestnut stumps in the ground. Often wondered if they were cut for the cabin. Also found some broken gravestones in the dead leaves one spring. Could barely read them they were so weathered and broken, but the style of script carved in them was definitely 1700’s era.
Owned and lived in for a while an 1840’s cabin made from chestnut in Virginia. My grandfather had one on his property as a guest house. There are still a few American Chestnut trees that survived, but they are rare and kept secret. Grandpa’s neighbor had one and brought roasted chestnuts over at Christmas time. On the 28 acre wooded property I owned there quite a few Chestnut stumps in the ground. Often wondered if they were cut for the cabin. Also found some broken gravestones in the dead leaves one spring. Could barely read them they were so weathered and broken, but the style of script carved in them was definitely 1700’s era.
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